David Forslund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is quite consistent with the MPI Federation process we wrote > about > in our AMIA 2000 paper. There are multiple levels of trust. > The issue of a trusted party than spans country boundaries is an > interesting one. > I suppose it could be the UN, but I know a lot of people that > consider it > to be untrustworthy.
In the mid to late 90s Isaac Kohane and colleagues published a great paper on a system for unique personal identitifiers with limited scope, using PKI - called "Hidit", I recall.The idea was never widely implemented, I think. Could I have a copy of your AMIA paper, Dave? Tim C
